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October 29, 2018

Antarctica. An Exhibition on Alienation at the Kunsthalle Wien looks at the pattern underlying alienation – this “relationship based on the absence of a relationship.” Showing numerous contemporary artworks; the exhibition explores how the term “alienation” functions in our world today. In doing so, it also addresses the following question: What other forms of relationship to the self and to the world do we need? Before we can even begin to create something like a space supportive of self-determination and self-realization? Curators: Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen. 25.10.2018– 17.2.2019.

October 15, 2018

The ALBERTINA is featuring the American photographer Helen Levitt (1913–2009) in a retrospective that brings together around 130 of her iconic works. These range from her early, surrealism-influenced photographs to her 1941 photos from Mexico, the clandestinely shot portraits of New York subway passengers and her revolutionary early color photographs. Helen Levitt numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. It was in the 1930s that this passionate observer and chronicler of New York street life first began taking pictures of the inhabitants of poorer neighborhoods such as the Lower East Side, the Bronx, and Harlem. Levitt’s unsentimental pictorial language gives rise to a humorous and theatrical pageant situated beyond any moral or social documentary clichés. In 1974, Levitt became the first color photographer to be given an exhibition by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. 12.10.2018 – 27.10.2019.

October 12, 2018

The 1990s, Setting 3: Mobile Art in a Mobile Market at Wien Museum MUSA. The exhibition ‘The 1990s’ at the Wien Museum MUSA offers a panoramic view of Vienna’s art scene at the time, across three consecutive acts featuring a total of 255 works by 245 artists. That diversity in all artistic media was the defining characteristic of the decade is shown through a rich mix of artistic media that includes painting, sculpture, photography, performance art and video art. Curators: Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer and Berthold Ecker. 11.10.2018 – 20.01.2019.